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1900 | Borges Center
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Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Baptized on 20 June 1900 as Jorge Francisco Luis Isidoro Borges. The godparents were Francisco Borges (paternal uncle) and Leonor Suárez de Acevedo (maternal grandmother). The baptism took place in the San Nicolás de Barí parrish. Borges continued to reside at Calle Tucumán 840. Vakalo School of Arts. Borges Center News Archive. Subscribe to Variaciones Borges. Hispanic Languages and Literature. Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana.
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1915 | Borges Center
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Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Continues studies at the Collège Calvin. Syndicalism becomes the dominant force in the labor movement and controls the workers’ organization FOR A. Vakalo School of Arts. Borges Center News Archive. Subscribe to Variaciones Borges. Hispanic Languages and Literature. Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana.
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1912 | Borges Center
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Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Death of poet Evaristo Carriego, friend of the Borges family. Borges would later write several essays and a 1930 biographical essay on him. Borges withdraws from primary school on Calle Thames after being bullied. No further formal schooling until March 1913. Passing of the Sáenz Peña law granting universal male suffrage, guaranteeing the secret ballot, and making voting mandatory. The family moves into a country house in the. Vakalo School of Arts.
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1905 | Borges Center
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Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Death of Isidoro Suárez Laprida, maternal grandfather, subject of an important poem 25 years later. First writings, in English and Spanish. Failed revolutionary attempt by the Radical Party. Foundation of newspaper. Vakalo School of Arts. Borges Center News Archive. Subscribe to Variaciones Borges. Hispanic Languages and Literature. Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana.
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1909 | Borges Center
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Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Workers’ mobilization repressed by the government (the Red Week ). Assassination of the Buenos Aires Chief of Police by an Anarchist militant. Vakalo School of Arts. Borges Center News Archive. Subscribe to Variaciones Borges. Hispanic Languages and Literature. Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana.
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Variaciones Borges 39 | Borges Center
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Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Borges y la cultura de las emociones. A impulsos de la sangre germánica: Usos y paradojas del origen. A 21st Century Note on Borges’s Kabbalism. Reading, Crime, and Abracadabra: Borges, Reading Practices, and the Kabbalah. Sinology on the Edge: Borges’s Reviews of Chinese Literature (1937-1942). Conservo estas impertinencias : Las lecturas gongorinas de Borges. Descifrar el Secreto: La secta del Fénix y el acertijo literario. Nora C. Benedict.
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1906 | Borges Center
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Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Death of M. Quintana; José Figueroa Alcorta becomes president. General Bartolomé Mitre dies. Former President Carlos Pellegrini dies. Vakalo School of Arts. Borges Center News Archive. Subscribe to Variaciones Borges. Hispanic Languages and Literature. Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana.
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1916 | Borges Center
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Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures. This battle, which began 1 July 1916, is evoked in "El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan." Borges continues studies at the Collège Calvin. Hipólito Yirigoyen, candidate of the Radical Party, elected president. Vakalo School of Arts. Borges Center News Archive. Subscribe to Variaciones Borges. Hispanic Languages and Literature. Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana.
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1914 | Borges Center
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Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Borges family (including the maternal grandmother) leaves for Europe on 3 February 1914 on a German ship, the Sierra Nevada. Arrival in Geneva in April, where they move into an apartment at 17 rue Malagnou (now 9 rue Ferdinand Hodler). Borges begins his studies at the Collège Calvin. Beginning of friendship with Maurice Abramowicz and Simon Jichlinski. Vakalo School of Arts. Borges Center News Archive. Subscribe to Variaciones Borges.
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